Word: flashings
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Their wings flash silver at the moon...
...Anastasia confronts her small imp of the perverse, little Pearl in a red frock. What does she feel before that inscrutable child? Envy for times past, fear for the child's future indifference before accusation, shame? Nothing so simple. In that transcendent silence, white spheres of guilt and innocence flash and tumble, collide and fuse. Souls changes places, lose and gain whole years. Nobody moves...
...Essay helps all readers to extricate themselves from a bog of frustration into a more healthy understanding of the power play. Our spines can stiffen a little as we realize that our leaders can better flash the image of a nation prepared to take care of itself with the vast majority of patriotic Americans making themselves seen and heard behind our leaders. May they guess right much of the time, stand acknowledged all of the time...
...battlefield itself, swift jet fighter-bombers flash in under the low-hanging clouds to dump napalm and explosives on enemy positions that are now as close as 300 yards to the base perimeter. The Marines are, in fact, relying on air to do the job of pinpoint destruction that their own artillery would normally undertake. Reason: they lost so many shells when their ammo dump was hit three weeks ago that they are conserving ammunition for the big attack...
...delayed flight home. "I was with a friend who had four boys, ranging from about six to twelve years old," he says. "One of the kids spotted Hull and started up to him. His father said, 'Hey, you can't do that.' But quick as a flash Hull was awake and, by God, there he was with a kid on each knee...